tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:29:56 +0000Course in Political MiraclesThe Continuing American Revolutionhttp://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)Blogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-5544976552001563542Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:29:00 +00002015-03-12T09:29:56.694-07:00Rand Paul's Secret Mission?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://wideofthemark.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/head-in-sand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://wideofthemark.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/head-in-sand.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />No two lovers of liberty view every political issue and strategy in the same way. But there does seem to be emerging these days among libertarians two broad general ways of seeing the world. Both start with the same libertarian axiom and corollary, but human beings choose what they want to perceive and axiom-focused libertarians see a different world than corollary-focused libertarians.<br /><br />All libertarians want to "live and let live," with "living life to the fullest" being the axiomatic principle and "letting live" (the Non-Aggression Principle) being an important corollary. But what happens if the corollary gains more importance in one's mind than the axiom? In other words, what if someone measures everything by "letting live," neglecting to <i>first</i> measure by "living life to the fullest?"<br /><br />It's tempting to say, "Nothing happens because the two are so interdependent. One cannot live life to the fullest without letting live, and one cannot let live without...." Oops! It doesn't work in reverse, does it? One can indeed let live and yet not live life to the fullest. So the question still waits an answer. What happens if one tries to reverse the corollary and the axiom?<br /><br />If your answer is, "Well, it's kind of like burying your head in the sand. Self-imposed blindness starts occurring" ... then you might be one whose head is <b><i>not</i></b> in the sand.<br /><br />Another answer might be something like, "Well, if you reverse the two you start seeing a fantasy world of your own making instead of the real world." And therein lies the difference between these two libertarian world views: the real world libertarians, and the make believe world libertarians; which in the current election cycle might have some libertarians arguing, "Better sand than Rand!" while others counter with, "Better Rand than sand!"<br /><br />The most obvious difference occurs in the area of foreign policy. How many times have you heard friends or neighbors say something like, "Libertarians have a lot of good ideas and I would support them ... except they have their heads in the sand when it comes to foreign policy!" These friends and neighbors are not blind.<br /><br />Libertarians who place "let live" on a pedestal in their minds above "live" have a vested interest in looking at belligerents in foreign countries and saying something like, "Let them fight it out. They are no threat to us." 99% of the time this is probably good policy. But what about the other 1%? Corollary-focused libertarians blind themselves to real world threats in order to remain loyal to their pedestal god of "let live."<br /><br />Rand Paul doesn't blind himself in this respect. Although he would surely honor the corollary "let live" in 99 out of 100 foreign policy circumstances, he is open-eyed enough to recognize real threats in the real world. It might be said that Rand is 99% a non-interventionist, yet he is willing to rationally weigh the clearly stated threats of the most ideological insane foreign aggressors ... and willing to take reasonable action accordingly. He doesn't say, "What are they to us? They haven't attacked us yet."<br /><br />To see this difference in a hypothetical illustration from history, imagine Rand Paul had been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1938 instead of Neville Chamberlain. Rand would have recognized Hitler's intentions for what they were and taken appropriate action so that World War II might well have been averted, or if not prevented altogether at least its horrible effects of pain, suffering, death and destruction vastly reduced. On the other hand, if a head-in-the-sand libertarian had been Prime Minister, Hitler would have been allowed to build strength and take over weaker countries as he pleased. After all, "let <i>them</i> fight it out."<br /><br />De facto appeasement in the guise of honoring the corollary "let live" leads to horrible sabotage of the much more fundamental axiom "live."<br /><br />But then worsening the damage ... habits, once formed in mind in one area of thought tend to expand to other areas of thought. The habit of refusing to see real foreign threats can easily morph into a habit of refusing to see reality in domestic affairs.<br /><br />Recently there has been an argument circulating which goes something like this: "Rand Paul tries to win support of Republican establishment types! Therefore, using the finest guilt by association reasoning, he is one of them!" Or the lazy man's generic version: "All Republicans are alike!" Do you see the self-induced blindness required to make such arguments?<br /><br />Wouldn't it be amazing if Rand Paul's calling on earth was far beyond winning a presidential nomination or influencing the the overall mind-set of the public? Wouldn't it be amazing if Rand Paul also had a secret mission: <b><i>help libertarians pull their heads out of the sand</i></b>.<br /><br />What if head-in-sand libertarians, sensing the value of Rand's efforts, decide they have had enough of their uncomfortable stiff-neck posture? We can imagine Rand lending them a hand to help them straighten into an upright bearing. We can envision them stretching happily with newly felt freedom, inhaling a deep breath of healthy fresh air, and then suddenly blurting out with a laugh as it dawns on them:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Out of the sand,</span></b></i><br /><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span></b></i><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">ith Rand I stand!"</span></b></i></div><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong> <a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong> You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2015/03/rand-pauls-secret-mission.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-4890594730222309785Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:38:00 +00002015-02-11T07:38:03.810-08:00Did Abraham Lincoln Sell His Soul?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://room50.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/abe011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://room50.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/abe011.jpg" /></a></div><center><span style="font-size: x-small;">(U.S. Congressman Abraham Lincoln -Whig, Illinois)</span></center><br /><b><i>"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right—a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit."</i></b>&nbsp;--Abraham Lincoln (Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives January 12, 1848) <br /><br />Steve Berry prefaces his intriguing and provocative novel, <b>The Lincoln Myth</b>, with the above actual words of Abraham Lincoln spoken when Lincoln was a young congressman as yet untainted politically. One villain in the novel is a modern U.S. Senator who has come to a conclusion: "Reformism did not work. Elections offered no real choices, and third-party alternatives had no chance to succeed. Revolt? Revolution? The federal government would crush either. The only logical way to effect a lasting change was secession." The novel makes compelling, truly irrefutable arguments justifying secession, which all liberty lovers should study well.<br /><br />Steve Berry is an internationally best-selling author whose novels radiate with long-buried historical information. He and his wife founded&nbsp;<a href="http://history-matters.org/">History Matters</a>, a foundation which raises money to help communities preserve historical heritage. His goal in life is to not let history die.<br /><br />Did the American Founding Fathers ever intend for secession to be illegal? In leading a war against secession, did Abraham Lincoln merely sell his soul to Northern political interests which made up his political base? Was the one and only Supreme Court decision upon which all subsequent secession cases have been decided,&nbsp;<i>Texas vs White,</i>&nbsp;nothing more than a post Civil War political expediency? Berry answers all these questions and more in his novel.<br /><br />In the story, the Senator leading the secessionist movement fervently believes in the words of the Declaration of Independence: <i>"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."</i> (quoted by Berry in Chapter 26)<br /><br />Chapter 9 of Berry's story begins with the President of the United States explaining: 'The American revolution was not a revolution at all. At no time was its goal the overthrow of the British government. None of its stated aims included conquering London and replacing the monarchy with a democracy. No. The American Revolution was a war of secession. The Declaration of Independence was a statement of secession. The United States of America was founded by secessionists."<br /><br />Very much like Abraham Lincoln, the fictional U.S. President in Berry's story totally understands the moral justification for secession, but for political reasons feels he must not let it happen. The secession-minded Senator and his followers must be stopped. But....<br /><br />Okay, no more about the story so it is not ruined for you.<br /><br />If you want to learn about secession, its justifications and logistics, while at the same time learning something of the true story of Abraham Lincoln (different than the myths taught in public schools), while also at the same time enjoying a potpourri of little-known historical facts, this eye-opening fictional adventure might be fun for you. <br /><br /><center><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=nascarkaleido-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=0345526589&amp;asins=0345526589&amp;linkId=DFFDHHYWILVTTXGN&amp;show_border=false&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=FDF3F3&amp;title_color=0066C0&amp;bg_color=FFFFFF" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong> <a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong> You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> </center>http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2015/02/did-abraham-lincoln-sell-his-soul.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-8856407738635156717Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:10:00 +00002015-01-12T10:10:24.350-08:002015: The Year Liberty Is Born Again?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.commonsensegovernment.com/pix/tytler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.commonsensegovernment.com/pix/tytler.jpg" /></a></div><center><span style="font-size: x-small;">("Tytler Cycle" Alexander Fraser-Tytler 1747-1813)</span></center><br />The cycle depicted above is probably somewhat inaccurate and misleading, but as certain as Newton's three laws of motion, cultures do move through political cycles. When liberty&nbsp;is generally taken for granted, deep in the womb of a culture the acceptance of dictatorship&nbsp;grows as an embryo. When dictatorship<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><i>&nbsp;</i></b></span>is widely acceptable as the order of things, liberty&nbsp;in utero starts causing morning sickness. Political cycles can be resisted or flowed along with, but they cannot be stopped any more than Al Gore can stop the periodic climatic changes of the planet earth. <br /><br />Insightful political observers can foresee changes in a culture's political climate just as astute investors can predict with decent approximation the cyclical highs and lows of stock and bond markets. At market bottoms there is a time when not a lot seems to be happening, yet underlying strength is being built which will form a base for a rally. Such has been the last 40 years of the liberty movement. The actual birth comes with a burst.<br /><br />As we head into 2015, apologists for dictatorship&nbsp;can no longer abort the liberty&nbsp;pregnancy. The labor pains are increasing in strength and occurring every minute now.<br /><br />How will the liberty birth show itself to the world? Will there be a brand new Liberty Party like there was in 1840, only this time to advocate the abolition of today's more disguised slavery? Will the Libertarian Party grow into a new maturity and quit sabotaging their cause? Will the Republican Party cleanse itself of sycophants and become a solid and dependable scaffolding for building liberty?<br /><br />Our guess is "none of the above." But it <i>will</i> happen. Liberty <i>will</i> be born again.<br /><br />There is one possibility we can watch for during 2015. Great political turning points happen when one unique man or woman says to himself or herself, "I feel the spirit! I cannot resist! I surrender my ego and let myself be used as an instrument!" Suddenly there are no more sterile intellectualized arguments, but fiery inspiring speeches which reach inside of people and awaken their spirit as never before. Suddenly there are no more "careful political considerations," but rather "I'm being moved by the spirit of liberty ... so I trust." Suddenly there is no more "what will happen to me?" or "what's in it for me," but only "this is what I must do, no matter what." Suddenly there is no more doubt or hesitation, only certainty and action.<br /><br />Such a true champion of liberty may or may not be guided to use a political party label, but will certainly not be bound by any party rules or party peer pressure. To the willfully blind observer, it might seem like such a champion stands alone. But inside himself or herself this champion will be far beyond standing alone, moved by the power of every human being's liberty impulse, feeling the deepest heart and soul desire of all of us radiating in one body.<br /><br />Such a champion will not burden listeners with gloomy grumbling about marijuana being illegal, or gay marriages being unrecognized, or the evils of corporations, or the brutality of police, or about interfering in the affairs of other countries. Instead, his or her talk will be luminous and uplifting, about the possibility of people achieving a fullness of life never before possible, a level of joy and peace only possible when government's "progressiveness" is ended.<br /><br />Our champion will speak of one and only one solution to the one issue: "Do you want abundant prosperity? Do you want goodwill among all? Do you want peace? Do you want to live in a world of radiant love and joy? Then get your politicians out of our way and let us be!"<br /><br />Newton's third law of motion is sometimes stated, "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." The dictatorship tendency of Democrats has found a champion. Their attitude is: "It has become too tedious to wait for majority votes to disguise our dictatorship. We have a President who can rule by executive orders and memos!" Perhaps an equal and opposite reaction would be the rising of a champion of liberty such as has never been seen since Patrick Henry or Samuel Adams.<br /><br />The spirit of liberty always laughs and says, "Ye of little faith! Just wait and see!" Some of us feel we've waited long enough. Now in 2015 maybe we will see.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong> <a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong> You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2015/01/2015-year-liberty-is-born-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-6457110906045790988Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:59:00 +00002014-12-09T10:59:04.383-08:00The Only Way To Wake Up Your Liberal Neighbor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6PfgGGvubBQ/VIM8DnFWK-I/AAAAAAAADD8/jK08AXrEZG4/s1600/wake_up3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6PfgGGvubBQ/VIM8DnFWK-I/AAAAAAAADD8/jK08AXrEZG4/s640/wake_up3.jpg" /></a></div><center><span style="font-size: x-small;">("Wake Up America" painting by Jon McNaughton)</span></center><br />We've all known friends, neighbors, relatives, or acquaintances who as if sleep-talking while dreaming rattle off a litany of seemingly good accomplishments by government, but never open their eyes to the chains of slavery we are being wrapped in by political solutions. How can we wake up these dear people?<br /><br />Most of the subjugation is caused by liberal-progressive programs. Liberal-progressives mean well. Their aspirations inevitably sound appealing and are seen by many people as worthy objectives. Their political success is always in proportion to the number of voters who see their intentions as worthy, and the strength of voters' feelings about their aims. Since liberal-progressive end goals are so attractive to most people, fighting their schemes makes liberty lovers look "mean spirited," or at best "obstructionist."<br /><br />If that wasn't bad enough, liberty advocates have often focused on one or another of the seemingly endless number of liberal-progressive programs and tried to fight it on its merits. Fighting individual liberal-progressive projects is like trying to defeat a many-headed hydra. Cut off one, and two more (or ten more) grow. &nbsp;The number of schemes liberal-progressives can come up with is infinite. And because they invent new causes far faster than anyone can keep up with, they will always be ahead of liberty defenders who would like to slow them down.<br /><br />It would seem that trying to defend against liberal-progressives is a losing battle. But it need not be. There is a wake-up-call way to answer your friends and neighbors who support liberal-progressive causes.<br /><br />In the old way of arguing politics we would announce that we disagree, and then attempt to argue our case. In other words, we would set ourselves up as adversaries. The adversarial relationship is felt by the other as resistance. Resistance invites the liberal-progressive supporter to put up defenses and resist back. Due to his defenses, even if our arguments are heard by his ears they do not settle into his mind. Not only do our arguments fail to reach inside him, but his need to reflect resistance back to us only serves to reinforce his inner mindset.<br /><br />There is a better way. Since we want to reach him, his defenses must first be forestalled. This is accomplished by agreeing with him at first. <i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"I agree with the result you would like to achieve. It would be good if your dream came to pass."</span> </i>In most situations, our agreement will be easy because the causes of liberal-progressives are usually worthy. In some cases, our agreement will feel more like "walking for a moment in the other's shoes" in order to neutralize his defenses.<br /><br />With defenses down, he is in rapport with us and the next part of our answer will reach him. But the next part of our answer will also shock him and wake him up: <i><span style="color: #b45f06;">"But it's very nasty of you to try to reach your goal by dictatorship."</span></i><br /><br />This will not change the Karl Marx marionettes who believe their ends justify their means. These are the ones who justify dictatorship by blocking out of their minds the nonsensical nature of their&nbsp;self-contradictory&nbsp;announcements: "It's dictatorship by the&nbsp;people." "It's dictatorship for everyone's good."<br /><br />But the vast majority of people who support liberal-progressive causes simply have never given thought to the deleterious evil of the dictatorship of liberal-progressive programs.<br /><br />Liberal-progressives constantly throw in our face all the "good" their dictatorship has accomplished. For example, the below quote from a liberal television series:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HWHGVJ1p6JU/VH80BbgtOII/AAAAAAAADCw/u11tlXTVUgI/s1600/moveon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HWHGVJ1p6JU/VH80BbgtOII/AAAAAAAADCw/u11tlXTVUgI/s200/moveon.jpg" /></a></div>Here's the way liberty lovers must answer in principle:<br /><br />"The Civil Rights Act has opened many doors for people. A wonderful cause, increasing possibilities, providing opportunities! But why did you feel the need to sell your soul to the devil by becoming a dictator? Wouldn't there have been a better way?"<br /><br />"Social Security is a marvelous program with sometimes lifesaving results. Too bad you couldn't have worked out voluntary implementation. You've destroyed your honor by using dictatorship."<br /><br />"Medicare is really helping many people, which is a great outcome. It's just unfortunate you have become no better than a highway robber by funding it through dictatorship."<br /><br />"Clean air is so healthy for people! Clean air is a worthwhile achievement to rejoice about. But now you've sabotaged your own integrity by becoming a dictator. Wouldn't there have been a moral way to achieve the same goal?"<br /><br />Maybe the wording of these examples isn't the best, but there are many, many ways to word an answer which first disarms the defenses of liberal-progressive supporters and then points out how depraved they have made themselves with their dictatorship. In fact, if we held a contest for the most powerfully effective wording, we could probably create some truly eye-opening phrases.<br /><br />But you get the idea. First <i>agree.</i>... then <i>shake them awake</i>.<br /><br /><center><em style="font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-center;"><strong>"I'm with you, respecting your dream....&nbsp;</strong></em></center><center><em style="font-size: 19px; text-align: -webkit-center;"><strong>your dictatorship is evil!"</strong></em></center><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong> <a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong> You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-only-way-to-wake-up-your-liberal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-919543884449476111Tue, 04 Nov 2014 03:21:00 +00002014-11-03T19:21:17.423-08:00Important Election Results Not Reported by the Media<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://profpozzebon.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/apathy-201309-aad1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://profpozzebon.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/apathy-201309-aad1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><center><span style="font-size: 120%;"><em><strong>"I vote for peace and joy and love in my society!"</strong></em></span></center><br />Once upon a time in storybook land there was a population ruled by leaders of two political parties. The people of this fictional society were slaves, but they rarely sensed they were slaves because the leaders of the two political parties were chosen by election. Occasionally someone felt like a slave, but was immediately told, "You can't be a slave because a slave doesn't have an opportunity to choose his master. So just be a good citizen and vote."<br /><br />Once accustomed to voting, most "good citizens" accepted the master-slave atmosphere and used their voting in the hopes of being masters rather than slaves.<br /><br />Beneath all the hyped surface justifications about good citizenship people sensed only two bottom-line reasons for voting: they either wanted to use majority rule to impose their values and schemes on others, or they hoped a majority of voters would side with them in defending themselves against those who would force on them values and schemes they would not have chosen for themselves. In reality, both motives were present at the same time in most voters. Most wanted to be dictators in some ways, and in other ways they wanted to defend themselves from the dictatorship of other voters.<br /><br />A few saw the system as simply an insane electoral battle for power and made the choice to forgo voting altogether so they could feel the ego-satisfaction of moral smugness and the partial temporary peace of not being a combat participant. Another few saw voting as solely for self-defense, not wishing to dictate to others in any way, and made the choice to support the least dictatorial of the two ruling parties, seeing their choice as the greatest good between the only two logical alternative outcomes, the greatest good realistically available. These non-voters and totally defensive voters still found it very hard to experience deep and long-lasting peace, because they were very acutely aware that all around them was a would-be dictators' war zone, a battlefield of competing slave masters.<br /><br />In this society at election time the focus of most voting men and women was pulled away from their natural inclination to live and let live, away from their natural feeling of brotherhood, replacing natural good will with the temptation to believe it's alright to rule over others through elected representatives. The practice of voting in elections was considered justification for being blind to the reality of dictatorship and slavery behind the disguise.<br /><br />During election season, brothers often found themselves pitted against brothers, mothers against daughters, husbands against wives, neighbors against neighbors. This rarely broke out into a bloody shooting war, because people were told to be "civil," but a civil war it was. Very few recognized consciously that a war by any other name, such as "election," was still a war. Some relished the battle, but even these (along with everyone else) could not escape feeling on a deeper level the ugly climate of war.<br /><br />Elections often had the effect of bringing out the worse in people. It was not uncommon for men and women to lie, cheat, steal and destroy the property of others at election time. Human beings became monsters.<br /><br />In this society at election time very few people stayed totally at peace, totally in love, and totally in joy. People who couldn't care less about elections found it hard to not be frustrated with all the mailings, phone calls, billboards, television commercials and other forms of electioneering pushed into their lives. Some people who valued facts and logic even became outright furious at all the demagoguery. Election winners experienced merely short-lived surface joy, always in their honest moments too well aware that their victory was only for a while and quite fragile.<br /><br />Another strange feature of this society: all this misery which was the result of elections was never reported by their media.<br /><br />Good thing this was only a storybook society, wouldn't you say?<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong> <a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong> You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2014/11/important-election-results-not-reported.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-5832232938534827762Sun, 05 Oct 2014 16:26:00 +00002014-10-05T09:26:57.785-07:00Advanced Training For Freedom Guardians<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://graphicpolicy.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/the_authority_team_by_quitely.jpg?w=860" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://graphicpolicy.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/the_authority_team_by_quitely.jpg?w=860" /></a></div><br /><br /><center><span style="font-size: 120%;"><em><strong>"I WILL train myself ... and I WILL preserve freedom! "</strong></em></span></center><br />From Lesson 5: "The day is past for lying, cheating, stealing political candidates and petulant, whining, fit-throwing political activists. These habits will still be seen in some circles, especially among government worshipers as they continue to lose control, but they no longer have much effect on the voting public looking for solutions which 'ring true' within themselves." <br /><br />From Lesson 12: "Motivated by fear, men and women set up governments because they think they need protection or help. The more a man is immersed in limitation-thinking the more fearful he will be and the more government he will call for. As Ayn Rand so clearly pointed out, one who feels hopelessly terrorized will call for very expansive and expensive government ... and be willing to terrorize others to pay for it."<br /><br />From Lesson 13: "With trust there is nothing I cannot achieve, including a near 'miraculous' change in the way people think politically. Without trust I cannot even change my own mind."<br /><br />From Lesson 19: "The fact that love attracts people is of primary importance to me in achieving my political goals. In a democratic political realm I could have all the most wonderful intellectualized premises and conclusions anybody ever came up with, but if people don't sense that I am loving then I am not going to be supported by vast numbers of people and my ideas are going to be sold short."<br /><br />From Lesson 20: "None of us following our inner spiritual nature would steal, or murder, or enslave others. Yet we allow governments to commit these acts because we have been convinced by split minds that there is a difference between our own good and society's good as a whole. In the 180 degree backward thinking of today's world, it is not always easy to see that government interference in people's lives beyond the very basic laws of existence is actually based on fear and hatred of man's free spirit." (See <a href="http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2007/11/spiritual-basis-of-liberty.html">The Spiritual Foundation of Liberty</a>)<br /><br />From Lesson 25: "There is no one more inspiring than a man who is free of pain, fear, and guilt. Such a man was Ayn Rand's ideal, so it's no wonder that dwelling on her fictional heroes is such an uplifting experience. No one teaches freedom more effectively than one who lives free of pain, fear, and guilt."<br /><br />From Lesson 26: "Even though mankind has experienced extreme growing pains, the overall consciousness of mankind is evolving to higher levels. Peace is now more than ever valued over war, and people are beginning to see more clearly than ever that governments or ruling elites are the cause of mankind's ills, and cannot be a solution. Such clear valuing and clear seeing can only lead to greater good than ever."<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong> <a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong> You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2014/10/advanced-training-for-freedom-guardians.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-2921988894157760127Thu, 04 Sep 2014 02:57:00 +00002014-09-03T19:57:22.573-07:00Why Stand Tall For Liberty?<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SbQOcImS5PI/AAAAAAAABhE/pvZHMG-Fqgo/s1600-h/fireworksLiberty.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SbQOcImS5PI/AAAAAAAABhE/pvZHMG-Fqgo/s320/fireworksLiberty.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310885737083888882" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 295px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><center><span style="font-size: 120%;"><em><strong>"When I'm serving liberty I'm at my best!"</strong></em></span></center><br />There is a power at work for liberty which is far greater than I imagine. Call it the power of an idea whose time has come. Call it the deepest desire of every human heart and soul. Call it angels at work. It doesn't matter what one calls it. Liberty always rises again ... stronger than ever.<br /><br />Trying to contain liberty is like trying to contain love. Close it down temporarily in one area and it erupts in another area. Close it off as much as possible in all areas and it still finds a way to burst forth because not experiencing it is too painful. Our true nature is love. Our true nature is liberty. <br /><br />If liberty cannot be held back forever, then in theory I wouldn't have to work for liberty, fight for liberty, or defend liberty. I literally would need do nothing but wait and see what happens. <br /><br />If this is true, why do some join the Libertarian Party or the Republican Liberty Caucus? Why do some work toward extracting themselves from bureaucratic control over their lives and establishing greater personal sovereignty? Why do some put all their heart and soul into selling and promoting the works of Ayn Rand? <br /><br />The answer has to do with a spiritual feeling. I might act in some way to further liberty (even though liberty is destined to prevail without my efforts) because&nbsp;<b><i>I'm</i></b> <strong><em>feeling my best</em></strong> when I'm serving liberty. Serving liberty feels really, really wonderful and <b><i>right</i></b> inside myself. My true nature is freedom and my inner being loves when I am expressing who I am. No matter in what exact way I feel guided to serve liberty ... it is deeply soul-satisfying service.<br /><br />Those who are serving the opposite of liberty: government expansion, government involvement, and government interference, have sold out their souls and are experiencing misery deep inside whether they would ever admit it or not.<br /><br />Such sell-outs, who have no understanding as to why they are feeling so unfulfilled, call for more of the same ... more government expansion, more government involvement, more government interference ... like asking the torturer to inflict more pain in the hopes of relieving pain. <br /><br />There is no such thing as a <i><b>truly</b></i> happy government worshiper or a <i><b>deeply thoroughly</b></i> happy government-advocating liberal-progressive. <br /><br />But <strong><em>my</em></strong> soul is intact and <i><b>my</b></i> happiness glows like the sun&nbsp;<strong><em>because</em></strong> I love liberty and choose to serve liberty. <br /><br />What fun it is to watch liberty's progress! What exquisite pleasure I feel serving my spirit, which is free! What absolute joy I experience as I declare many times a day:<br /><br /><strong><em>"Liberty I love you with all my heart and soul! I live only to serve you! Serving you I am serving myself and everyone! Serving you I am at my very best!"</em></strong> <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong> <a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong> You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2014/09/why-stand-tall-for-liberty.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-1434234939278885460Wed, 18 Jun 2014 03:21:00 +00002014-06-17T20:44:23.410-07:007 Deadly Sins of Liberty Lovers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-07KmdG62cf4/U6CTXO0J5aI/AAAAAAAAC8I/91mn-l9po2s/s1600/archery-bad-shutting-7144591.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-07KmdG62cf4/U6CTXO0J5aI/AAAAAAAAC8I/91mn-l9po2s/s320/archery-bad-shutting-7144591.jpg" /></a></div><br /><center><span style="font-size: 120%;"><em><strong>"If I'm allowing my ego to blind me, I cannot be successful!"</strong></em></span></center><br />A course in political miracles can contain all the lessons in the world for developing oneself into a successful guardian of political liberty, yet will still be an incomplete course if it doesn't mention ways one can sabotage the achievement of one's political ideals, wouldn't you say?<br /><br />We all understand a flawed philosophy automatically contains the seeds of its own sabotage, which is why liberal-progressives with all their abstract intellectual contrivances cannot prevail in the long run. Yet for so many years liberal-progressives have ruled. Why? Because they have pursued their goals with laser-like aim devoid of self-damaging strategies, tactics, and attitudes.<br /><br />The opposite is true of most would-be liberty guardians.<br /><br />Liberty political philosophy is free of man-made intellectual contraptions. <i>"In a moral, just, and reasonable society, men and women are governed by natural laws which must be honored if the society is to serve human life in its full promise. Natural laws do not violate one person's rights (wronging one person) for the good of many. In nature, what is right for any one individual is right for a society of individuals, and what is wrong for any one individual is wrong for a society of individuals. With natural law governance no one is sacrificed. Natural law treats every one equally."</i><br /><i><br /></i>Therefore, completely unlike liberal-progressives, those who love liberty renounce <i>forced</i> solutions.&nbsp;<i>"A guardian of liberty is one who understands that forcing solutions on people by legislation, judicial fiat or majority rule is injustice ... degrading and unfair; but allowing people free choice among solutions which encroach on no one allows the learning of responsibility and the development of self-esteem."</i><br /><br />With such a non-harmful life-serving political philosophy, liberty proponents should have celebrated huge success many, many years ago. Why has their progress been so pitiful? &nbsp;Could it be that the strategies, tactics, and attitudes of would-be liberty guardians have been like arrows flying off and falling everywhere but on target, perhaps even damaging themselves and their cause?<br /><br />The Greek word hamartia (ἁμαρτία) is usually translated as "sin" in the New Testament. In Classical Greek, it is an archery term meaning "to miss the mark" or "to miss the target." If liberty guardians have for years been missing the mark politically, what are their deadliest sins in this context?<br /><br />The farthest off-target aim which is made by those who hope to produce liberty is believing they need to make converts. Deep down inside, <i>every</i> human being feels the natural rightness of liberty, and that includes liberal-progressives who are only temporarily trapped in their addiction to dictatorship, living in denial like alcoholics but not totally beyond healing. Liberty guardians do not need converts. They need only help people get in touch with their innermost natural feelings. How is such a true aim accomplished? Not by creating a sense of alienation, but by fostering a sense of rapport; not by thinking "you are against us," but by holding in mind the truth "we are all in this together."<br /><br />If you are feeling the true inner joy of liberty and you would like another person to feel what you are feeling, you do not try to prove to the other person that you are different (trying to prove to yourself that you are "not like them"). You do not say to another: "I'm this, but you are that." Rather, you think in your mind, "Here, join me in feeling this joy," and you happily let that person join in what you are feeling.<br /><br />If you are deeply certain of the natural rightness of liberty and you want another person to also know that same deep certainty, you do not say in your thoughts: "I'm right! And you are wrong!" Instead, you let that person feel you. You let down your barriers and wordlessly convey: "Here, feel my certainty and the peace it engenders."<br /><br />If you are experiencing the exquisite love of life which liberty allows one to experience and you wish another person could feel such sweet natural love, you do not attack that person. You extend the love and let that person feel your love, so they will crave joining with you in spirit.<br /><br />In order for people to be on the same page with you, you first have to allow them to be "with you." Separating yourself, flaunting arrogance, attacking ... all are arrows which do damage to your own purpose.<br /><br />What about constantly allowing discussions to degenerate into possible details of pie-in-the-sky Utopian futures? Does such a tactic alienate people or aid them in joining with you in a feeling of rapport? Isn't the here and now where others are likely to be focused? And doesn't their joining with you and feeling what you are feeling occur only here and now?<br /><br />Another widely off-target arrow is the strategy of voicing seemingly head-in-the-sand foreign policy announcements, allowing others to form the impression that you could care less about the suffering of people elsewhere in the world because your sacred principle of avoiding foreign entanglements trumps any sympathy for people living in terror and horror. Could it be that first expressing sincere and deep compassion for the sufferers in other countries will help people join with you on a feeling level, and therefore be receptive to any liberty-promoting alternative solutions which you may then voice?<br /><br />Then there is the insufferable arrogance of "I will never support the lesser of two evils," totally avoiding two glaring facts of existence. (Fact 1) Nobody is perfect. (Oh, but you and your guys are perfect enough to deserve support. Yet God forbid anyone else ever deserving support.) (Fact 2) The lesser of two evils is logically the greater good of the two possible alternatives being compared. Now there's a policy ... choosing to see evil while blinding oneself to seeing good! Such a strategy keeps your ego very satisfied. And of course your ego doesn't want you noticing that <i>it</i> is out to destroy you ... and that supporting your ego is supporting&nbsp;the greatest evil of all.<br /><br />In all these respects, to see clearly, or to blind oneself: that is the question. Will would-be guardians of liberty be like Hamlet, lamenting the slings and arrows of "outrageous fortune" which are actually the misdirected arrows of their own egos? Or will they take control of their own destiny, quit looking through the ego's eyes ... and make their mark?<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong> <a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong> You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2014/06/7-deadly-sins-of-liberty-lovers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-8157820984365361798Sun, 04 May 2014 18:24:00 +00002014-05-04T11:24:54.406-07:00Ayn Rand's Sense of Life and Spiritual Seeing Ends Government Oppression<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SbQIbfBpuMI/AAAAAAAABg8/WEi5mRPo6mA/s1600-h/ayn_rand.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SbQIbfBpuMI/AAAAAAAABg8/WEi5mRPo6mA/s320/ayn_rand.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310879128854575298" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 204px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 120%;"></span><br /><center><span style="font-size: 120%;"><em><strong>"I join Ayn Rand, educating spiritually!"</strong></em></span></center><br />Government worshipers are in control of most universities, virtually every public school system, and almost every major media market. The general public has been thoroughly brainwashed to believe that if there is a problem, or the illusion of a problem, government solutions are the answer ... a new government program, a new government bureaucracy, more power to government. <br /><br />Because almost all avenues of education and information have been under the control of government worshipers, the vast majority of people are stuck in thinking habits which will never for long periods of time serve liberty. <br /><br />Because people's underlying thinking habits will rise to the surface again and again, any liberty-oriented political victory can only be short-lived ... unless people's underlying way of thinking is changed. <br /><br />As much as we might hate to admit it, thorough re-education of the public <strong><em>cannot not </em></strong>be a number one priority for those who deeply feel the natural impulse to political liberty. <br /><br />The question is: what to teach? <br /><br />The answer is given by Ayn Rand. It's not about politics or economics. It's about mankind's life-enhancing spirit vs. mankind's death-serving ego. It's about Ellsworth Toohey's ego trying to utterly destroy Howard Roark's creative spirit. It's about James Taggart's ego trying to belittle as "old-fashioned" his sister's innocent and wondering spirit. It's about Lillian Reardon's ego trying to twist the laws of nature 180 degrees and somehow render immoral Hank Reardon's benevolent and heroic spirit. <br /><br />It's about life vs. death. Religious people might allegorically identify the issue as God vs. Satan or the Christ vs. the Devil. But there is no need to be allegorical. Mankind <i>does</i> have a heroic spirit and egos <i>are</i> determined to diminish this spirit and destroy it altogether if possible ... whether these egos manifest as government henchmen, union henchmen, corporate henchmen, media henchmen or just plain thugs. <br /><br />Using intellectual articles or philosophical treatises, can I hope to educate the vast majority of people to the truth of the real battle going on? Only in my dreams! <br /><br />Can I expose ego destroying spirit as Ayn Rand did with novels, plays, and screenplays made into movies? Now I'm being realistic! <br /><br />Do I need to make myself into a novelist or playwright? Not unless this is my truest heart's desire and guidance of my own spirit. Ayn Rand has already done sufficient work for starters. I can create huge progress for liberty in the world, lighten and enlighten earth existence, merely by selling and promoting the work Ayn Rand has already done. <br /><br />Ayn Rand's philosophy is nowhere near 100% correct. Her perception is severely limited and when she philosophizes she sometimes gets herself trapped in the same kinds of cobwebs spun by all intellectuals. My purpose is not to create a million and one robotic Objectivists who lock step to the same tune and end up being stumbling blocks to the cause of true freedom by alienating people. <br /><br />It is not Ayn Rand's philosophizing that makes her work valuable to my cause but her <i>sense of life</i> and <i>spiritual seeing</i>. My purpose is to sell her sense of life and her vivid understanding that the forces opposing the spirit of mankind are the forces of death itself. <br /><br />What if I gave myself an assignment to brainstorm 101 fresh ideas for selling Ayn Rand's work, especially her greatest novels, <strong><em>The Fountainhead</em></strong> and <strong><em>Atlas Shrugged?</em></strong>&nbsp;My guess is that at least one of the schemes which pops into my mind is going to seem to me like it would be a really fun endeavor which would have me choosing great joy.<br /><br />As I go forth teaching to the world the fullness of life as opposed to the sense of death taught by government worshipers, I allow myself to feel immense gratitude that I do not have to be like the mythical Atlas, weighed down by a heavily pressing world. Instead, I can think of the world as being like a beach ball. It is light and fun. I throw it around, shape it, play tag with it, and use it to chidingly bounce off the heads of a few liberals and conservatives, maybe knocking loose some old death-serving conceptions ... <strong><em>with Ayn Rand's help</em></strong>.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong> <a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong> You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2014/05/ayn-rands-sense-of-life-and-spiritual.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-6521176576304260088Sun, 30 Mar 2014 20:58:00 +00002014-03-30T13:58:54.258-07:00Ted Cruz and Ron Paul ARE scary ... to Democrats!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vAWC5KRYHt4/UwjhWqgUcaI/AAAAAAAAC38/krM6ScOGlaE/s1600/180224653-sen-ted-cruz-and-sen-rand-paul-wait-to-speak-at-the.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlarge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vAWC5KRYHt4/UwjhWqgUcaI/AAAAAAAAC38/krM6ScOGlaE/s320/180224653-sen-ted-cruz-and-sen-rand-paul-wait-to-speak-at-the.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlarge.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>"Moderate Republicans sat on a wall,&nbsp;</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Moderate Republicans had a great fall.&nbsp;</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>All the king's horses and all the king's men&nbsp;</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Couldn't put Moderate Republicans together again." </i></b></div><br />No one doubts that the Washington Post, mouthpiece for the liberal-progressive dictatorship, activates all their horses and men to influence the Republican Party's presidential nomination process. During the next couple years we can expect to see the Post publish many articles like the following:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/influential-republicans-working-to-draft-jeb-bush-into-2016-presidential-race/2014/03/29/11e33b06-b5f2-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html">Influential Republicans working to draft Jeb Bush into 2016 presidential race</a>.<br /><br />Amazing as it seems, there actually <i>are</i> a few who call themselves "Republicans" who would prefer another Bush. &nbsp;But these few are likely under the intoxicating influence of propaganda like the Washington Post's articles. &nbsp;Most Republicans are more clear-headed.<br /><br />Fact of political life: If the Republican Party nominated another Bush ... so much support would be lost that the party might well face the destiny of the once influential early 19th Century Whig Party. &nbsp;Another Bush candidacy and a Washington Post propagandist could snicker fiendishly and publish a book titled: "The Disappearance of the Republican Party."<br /><br />Millions of voters who don't want another Democrat in the White House also don't want another Bush in the White House. Conservative voters who held their noses and voted for Dole, McCain, and Romney because they believed these "moderates" would at least be better than a liberal dictator are loath to hold their noses again. &nbsp;You can only hold your nose so long before craving fresh air.<br /><br />The Washington Post article linked above tries to get us to believe that real Republicans are scared of libertarian-conservatives like Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. We can laugh at the Washington Post because the joke is on them. &nbsp;Rand Paul and Ted Cruz <b><i>are</i></b> the real Republicans, and all the king's horses and men will not be able to put back together again the "sitting on the wall" wing of the Republican Party.<br /><br />If you feel guided to be active in politics to defend yourself and your loved ones from the Democratic Party's liberal-progressive dictatorship and past Republican wall sitting, make yourself a sure winner by studying our <b><i>Course in Political Miracles</i></b>.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <b><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </b>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <b><i>every</i></b> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><i><b>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2014/03/ted-cruz-and-ron-paul-are-scary-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-4861897521462149983Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:18:00 +00002014-02-22T10:18:40.878-08:00Will Rand Paul and Ted Cruz make a difference?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vAWC5KRYHt4/UwjhWqgUcaI/AAAAAAAAC38/krM6ScOGlaE/s1600/180224653-sen-ted-cruz-and-sen-rand-paul-wait-to-speak-at-the.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlarge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vAWC5KRYHt4/UwjhWqgUcaI/AAAAAAAAC38/krM6ScOGlaE/s320/180224653-sen-ted-cruz-and-sen-rand-paul-wait-to-speak-at-the.jpg.CROP.promo-mediumlarge.jpg" /></a></div><br />"Politics is not for everyone."<br /><br />Maybe not for a desert hermit. But all human interaction involves politics. There are politics in the work environment, politics in the home, politics in one's social life. If you are around people, you are being influenced by politics and are in many ways being political.<br /><br />"Okay, so I'm political. But is there any reason to be a political activist in the usual sense of influencing the "laws of the community" or the "laws of the land?"<br /><br />That is an impossible question for one person to answer for another. There are millions of factors, past, present and future ... here, there, and everywhere ... most factors not even in conscious awareness, which a person's inner being takes into account in sparking interest in any activity.<br /><br />Certainly "politics as usual" is probably distasteful for most people because "politics as usual" is the mechanism of those who want to create laws which force others to do things they wouldn't have freely chosen to do, or pay for things they wouldn't have freely chosen to pay for. Most people do not want to use laws to force others, and might shy away from what seems distasteful activity.<br /><br />Some might feel an interest in politics which they cannot explain. Maybe there is an important life lesson for them which they are not currently aware of, but which will come in the future as a result of political activity. Or maybe there is a soul mate they are destined to meet in the future at a political function. Our future good is often a present unknown.<br /><br />Modern day libertarian-conservatives in politics, like Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, know well why they are involved in politics. Self-defense. And the defense of their loved ones. Rand's father Ron Paul proved that as the bad guys manipulate, maneuver, lie, cheat, and steal to force their programs on everyone, there is benefit in having a good guy in Congress, and on television interview programs, and in election debates, saying "No!"<br /><br />If no one ever hears a "No!" from someone in a political position the bad guys win easily.<br /><br />If everyone believes the flawed logic that it is impossible to fight "politics as usual" by becoming political, the bad guys win by default.<br /><br />The Course in Political Miracles would never have been given to mankind if there were no value in good guys being active in politics. The Course, in fact, helps good guys to become miraculous at politics ... and everyone benefits.<br /><br />In answer to the question of this article's title, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz <b><i>are already</i></b>&nbsp;making a difference. And we can be grateful for and salute anyone who joins them.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <b><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </b>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <b><i>every</i></b> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><i><b>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2014/02/will-rand-paul-and-ted-cruz-make.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-2926970159141072487Wed, 08 Jan 2014 00:31:00 +00002014-01-07T16:31:20.328-08:00Political Success Assured<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WZQENpcqByo/UeNkTacP8OI/AAAAAAAAAl0/QtIoMN0nKDc/s1600/Will+work+for+freedom.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WZQENpcqByo/UeNkTacP8OI/AAAAAAAAAl0/QtIoMN0nKDc/s320/Will+work+for+freedom.png" /></a></div><br />This is a course for those who want to be successful politically.&nbsp; It does not concern itself merely with mundane political data and intricacies, the kind you could learn in a political science class.&nbsp; It concerns itself with preparing <i><b>you</b></i> to be a winner in a political world usually characterized by insanity.<br /><br />In a perfect world you would give no thought to politics because there would <i><b>be</b></i> no politics. This course prepares you for success in an imperfect world that could bring about your destruction, or the destruction of your values, if you don't take action.<br /><br />Politics is not fun ... unless you make it fun by choosing a fun-creating attitude and approach.&nbsp; This course teaches you how to have fun as a freedom zealot in the political realm. This course, taken seriously, prepares you to be a highly successful candidate or activist if you feel so inclined.<br /><br />The course also helps you to see more clearly and set goals which further your values and ideals.<br /><br />For example, in a political world where leaders who strongly influence your life and the lives of your loved ones are chosen by election, your goal has to be to <i><b>win elections</b></i>.&nbsp; You may not win every election, but to have a goal other than winning elections is to say, "I'm willing to let those be elected who <b><i>could</i></b> destroy my values."&nbsp; In other words, any goal other than winning elections is self-defeating.<br /><br />Seeing more clearly also helps you to make choices which most truly serve your ideals and values.<br /><br />For example, in an imperfect world, sometimes only two candidates stand a chance of winning a given election.&nbsp; Maybe a third candidate seems much more to reflect your values, but has no chance to win.&nbsp; To support the candidate who has no chance to win is equivalent to saying, "I don't care which of the others win, even if it's the most evil one who will be more thorough in destroying my values." &nbsp; Such a strategy is called "self-destruction."<br /><br />Basically, avoiding sabotaging your own values in an imperfect world where only two candidates have a realistic chance to win employs what business people refer to as "cost-benefit analysis."&nbsp; What is the cost to you if the most dangerous one wins, the one who would systematically and seriously destroy your values?&nbsp; What is the benefit of the lesser dangerous one winning?&nbsp; Maybe the only benefit you can think of is the value of forestalling the worst scenario, giving the liberty movement more time and some "breathing room" to work and win other elections.&nbsp; Cost-benefit analysis tells you your goal <i><b>has to be</b></i> supporting the one you perceive to be "the lesser of two evils," because it's actually the greatest realistic good.<br /><br />This course is really about creating a more perfect world, but in full recognition that the world as we find it is not perfect and it is necessary to prepare ourselves and act accordingly.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <b><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </b>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <b><i>every</i></b> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><i><b>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2014/01/political-success-assured.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-8888864695920373196Sat, 30 Nov 2013 18:35:00 +00002013-11-30T10:35:02.861-08:00Answer to Anarchists<br /><a href="http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Images/cosmology/human-space-universe-cosmos.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Images/cosmology/human-space-universe-cosmos.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 120%;"><center><em><strong>"I am serving the highest in the universe."</strong></em></center></span><br /><br>To this point in these lessons I have been opening myself up spiritually and developing certain mind-sets and habits which benefit me in the political realm. I have not yet <strong><em>fully</em></strong> considered whether by focusing on politics to such a degree I am "selling my soul to the devil". <br /><br />In other words, what if in a manner of speaking my <strong><em>real</em></strong> kingdom is not politics and by focusing on politics I am distracting my attention from my real kingdom? <br /><br />Probably I would not have progressed this far in these lessons if politics was a distraction to me, because the first few lessons would have "weeded me out" of politics and pointed me toward some endeavor my heart and mind could be fully into. Nonetheless, it benefits me to ask and have a clear answer to the question: would one's deepest spirit, one's innermost being, guide one to be involved in politics? <br /><br />Perhaps the best way to answer this question is to play a game of pretend, pretending that we are not alone in the universe and in fact there are beings infinitely more intelligent than earthlings. <br /><br />Being infinitely more intelligent than earthlings, these beings would have advanced far beyond ego-vested interests such as conquering others or ruling others. They would in fact be interested in raising the level of consciousness of every being on all planets and eliminating pain, fear and guilt in all the universe. <br /><br />To the extent that such advanced beings could influence earthlings, they would influence earthlings to love rather than fear, be at peace rather than war, and establish political systems based on universal principles rather than the ego-vested interests of some group or collection of groups. <br /><br />In other words, if politicians and political activists of the past have served "the devil" so to speak, or the worst in mankind, this does not mean that politicians or activists of the future cannot serve the best in the universe. <br /><br />This week I remind myself that I am active in politics for one reason only: to serve the light. <br /><br />Each day I use my awakening meditation to see myself serving the highest in the universe. I visualize the light of a brighter consciousness than my own and I say aloud to myself several times over: <br /><br /><strong><em>"I am serving the highest in the universe."</em></strong> <br /><br />As I go through my day, I repeat to myself many times over variations of this week's idea such as: <br /><br /><strong><em>"I am in politics to serve the highest purposes." <br /><br />"I live and work to serve only the light." <br /><br />"I am serving higher principles than old-style politics."</em></strong> <br /><br />As I am about to retire for the day, I feel a sense of satisfaction that I am not working for the narrow interests of one group or another, but rather for the highest principles in the universe. I say a few times to myself: <br /><br /><strong><em>"I'm about as happy as I can be! I'm serving EVERYONE by serving only the light!" </em></strong><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2013/11/answer-to-anarchists.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-4039916659593558254Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:55:00 +00002013-04-20T14:56:18.569-07:00Glenn Beck's "Cowards"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V5udWMni65Y/UXMIgIQ64DI/AAAAAAAACpU/wR1N296rk0c/s1600/052412-cowards-300-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dua="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V5udWMni65Y/UXMIgIQ64DI/AAAAAAAACpU/wR1N296rk0c/s1600/052412-cowards-300-01.jpg" /></a></div><br /><strong><em>"Before World War II, the German university system was a breeding ground for Nazism. In 1933, Nazi students started burning books, many times with the active help of their professors. Jewish professors and students were ousted, and intellectuals like Martin Heidegger joined up with the Nazis. </em></strong><br /><br /><strong><em>"After World War II, the Allies had to figure out a way to change the universities in Germany back into places of learning rather than hotbeds of fascism. In the end, they shut down many of the universities completely and rooted out the Nazi influences. Only after the schools were completely reformed were they allowed to reopen. </em></strong><br /><br /><strong><em>"I hate to say it, but someone has to: that's exactly what needs to happen to our public universities now."</em></strong> -- Glenn Beck in "Cowards"<br /><br />The solution, of course, is not&nbsp;merely weeding out the current bad guys and trying to start&nbsp;over again with the same garden.&nbsp; The weeds will&nbsp;just come&nbsp;back.&nbsp;&nbsp;The solution is jettisoning&nbsp;altogether&nbsp;a system which allows bad guys to infiltrate and then supports them.&nbsp; If there is still to be a Constitutional Republic, a rule of objective law, then there must be written into the Constitution the <strong><em>separation of education and state.</em></strong><br /><br />Okay, so&nbsp;maybe Glenn Beck is not radical enough in his proposed solutions. But he certainly is indefatigable in his&nbsp;quest to dig up facts no one wants to see, and present them to the public with full documentation.<br /><br />We copy here the Table of Contents of Glenn Beck's book "Cowards:"<br /><br />Chapter 1&nbsp;&nbsp; Step Right Up!&nbsp;&nbsp; (The Progressive Shell Game)<br />Chapter 2&nbsp;&nbsp; The Libertarian Option (Ending the Progressive Scam)<br />Chapter 3&nbsp;&nbsp; George Soros (The Puppet Master Pulls All the Strings)<br />Chapter 4&nbsp;&nbsp; Economic Terrorism (Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction)<br />Chapter 5&nbsp;&nbsp; The American Dream is a Lie<br />Chapter 6&nbsp;&nbsp; Bordering on Insanity<br />Chapter 7&nbsp;&nbsp; The New Police State<br />Chapter 8&nbsp;&nbsp; Jim Wallis and the Attempted Hijacking of Religion<br />Chapter 9&nbsp;&nbsp; Change the Media, Change the World<br />Chapter 10 The Islamist Agenda (Facts over Fear)<br />Chapter 11 Education (Radical Ideas to Defeat the Radicals)<br />Chapter 12 Young Socialists (Why Our Kids Think They Hate Capitalism)<br />Chapter 13 Adapt or Die<br /><br /><center><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=nascarkaleido-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B007EDYBNI&amp;nou=1&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe></center><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />&nbsp;<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> <br /><br /><br />http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2013/04/glenn-becks-cowards.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-6126832135949631094Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:29:00 +00002013-03-17T16:30:48.283-07:00Ayn Rand: 20th Century Prophetess<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/S379PEzo74I/AAAAAAAAB4Y/R4bKjoSQKik/s1600-h/AynRand2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440063835340337026" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/S379PEzo74I/AAAAAAAAB4Y/R4bKjoSQKik/s400/AynRand2.jpg" style="display: block; height: 393px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><br />Ever since President Obama was elected, sales of Ayn Rand's decades-old prophetic novel <b><i>Atlas Shrugged</i></b> have shifted into warp drive, untold millions of copies sold. Everywhere people are asking, "Where is Obama taking the United States? Will America end up a depressed and disheartened nation ruled by thugs?" Ayn Rand, writing over 50 years ago, showed us a clear picture of the future which is now unfolding. Dr. Yaron Brook says, <i><b>“People are discovering the prescience of Ayn Rand’s writing. They’re seeing the policies of ‘Atlas Shrugged’ villains Wesley Mouch and Cuffy Meigs acted out by our government officials today."</b></i><br /><br /><div><i><b>Atlas Shrugged</b></i> tells the story of an American future in which redistribution of wealth (government-forced sacrifice of some for the good of all) has become the moral ideal. Men and women of talent, skill, common sense and heroic spirit are increasingly punished (taxed, regulated, burdened) because they have produced more than others. Tricksters and morally corrupt individuals are rewarded by the system. America is deteriorating into dark and miserable cultural and economic chaos.</div><br /><div>Ayn Rand showed clearly the <i><b>cause</b></i> of all this destruction: <i><b>the morality of self-sacrifice</b></i>.</div><br /><div>Those who have read Atlas Shrugged are under no illusions as to where Obama and his philosophy are leading us. They can already see deterioration of society setting in everywhere they look ... and they know it will get much worse.</div><br /><div>Rand's desperate attempt to offer an answer resulted in her modern philosophy which renounces sacrifice. But the rejection of a man-made moral code which teaches living for others at the expense of oneself is not new to Ayn Rand. The refusal of such an ethic is logical, psychologically healthy, natural, and (despite centuries of misinterpretation) the true teaching of Jesus Christ.</div><br /><div>Not long after the publication of <b><i>Atlas Shrugged</i></b> another New York woman of Jewish lineage, who became known not so much as a prophetess but as a scribe for 21st Century Christianity, began jotting down words dictated to her from Jesus Christ. After substantial gentle and loving prodding from Jesus, Helen Schucman eventually surrendered to writing the lessons she was hearing, which Jesus described as his true and corrected teaching, much different in some important ways from popularly understood "Christian dogma."</div><br /><div>Especially important to any discussion of the cultural and economic deterioration of modern America, Jesus Christ, in his modern-day revelation which has become known as <i><b>A Course in Miracles</b></i>, joins with Ayn Rand. Whereas Ayn attempts to teach us that sacrifice is immoral, Jesus goes much farther, showing us that sacrifice is meaningless, an ego-mechanism which we use to blind ourselves, a device for denial of truth.</div><br /><div><b><i>What is the real meaning of sacrifice? It is the cost of believing in illusions. It is the price that must be paid for the denial of truth. There is no pleasure of the world that does not demand this, for otherwise the pleasure would be seen as pain, and no one asks for pain if he recognizes it. It is the idea of sacrifice that makes him blind.</i> (ACIM Manual For Teachers)</b></div><br /><div>In <i><b>A Course in Miracles</b></i>, Jesus devotes entire chapters to correcting the corrupted worship of sacrifice found in Christianity and elsewhere. In one particular chapter entitled, <i><b>The End of Sacrifice</b></i>, he states:</div><br /><div><i><b>Fear not to recognize as SOLELY OF YOUR MAKING the whole idea of sacrifice.</b></i></div><br /><div><b><i>You who believe that sacrifice IS love, must learn that sacrifice is separation FROM love. For sacrifice brings guilt, as surely as love brings peace. Guilt is the CONDITION of sacrifice, as peace is the condition for the awareness of your relationship with God.</i></b></div><br /><div>Jesus makes it very clear that he never sacrificed himself for others, nor would he ever. His actions and circumstances have for centuries been misinterpreted by minds which never understood. In his chapter entitled, <b><i>Atonement without Sacrifice</i></b>, Jesus states:</div><br /><div><b><i>There is one more point which must be perfectly clear before any residual fear which may still be associated with miracles becomes entirely groundless. The Crucifixion did NOT establish the Atonement. The Resurrection did. This is a point which many very sincere Christians have misunderstood.</i></b></div><br /><div><i><b>If the Crucifixion is seen from an upside down point of view, it certainly does appear AS IF God permitted, and even encouraged, one of his Sons to suffer BECAUSE he was good. Many very devoted ministers preach this every day. This particularly unfortunate interpretation, which actually arose out of the combined misprojection of a large number of my own would-be followers, has led many people to be bitterly afraid of God.</b></i></div><br /><div><i><b>Sacrifice is a notion totally unknown to God. Sacrificing others in any way is a clear-cut violation of God's own injunction that man should be merciful even as His Father in heaven is merciful.</b></i> </div><br /><div>For the salvation of mankind, the thought that sacrifice is somehow a moral ideal has to disappear. This idea was incorrect when it first started to spread among mankind, but its destructive effects became painfully obvious when it was picked up and championed as a societal ideal by Auguste Comte and Karl Marx. It has been an idea responsible for never-ending suffering and death, and can only bring about the ruin of America and Western freedoms ... <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">unless we refuse it</span>.</div><br /><div>In <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Atlas Shrugged</span>, Ayn Rand's fictional hero John Galt makes this declaration on an ethical level: <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”</span><br /><br />Jesus Christ in <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">A Course in Miracles</span> drives home the point on an even more fundamental metaphysical level: <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"The lesson I was born to teach, and still would teach to all my brothers, is that sacrifice is nowhere and love is everywhere."</span></div><br />Often a prophet or prophetess is a forerunner, signaling disaster about to come ... and offering at least a hint as to the solution. Ayn Rand was a great 20th Century prophetess. Freedoms known in the Western world will be saved if everyone you know reads her novels. And yet her inner hearing was not in every instance 100% clear. The clearest inner hearing had to wait for the humility of Helen Schucman and the voice of Jesus Christ: <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />The thought of sacrifice gives rise to all the forms that suffering appears to take. And sacrifice is an idea so mad that sanity dismisses it at once. Never believe that you can sacrifice. There is no place for sacrifice in what has any value. If the thought occurs, its very presence proves that error has arisen, and correction must be made.</span><br /><br />America's salvation from Obama's insanity: Ayn Rand and Jesus Christ!&nbsp; Who would have guessed?<br /><center><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></center><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> <br /><br /><br />http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2013/03/ever-since-president-obama-was-elected.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-1798214348061413911Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:39:00 +00002013-02-09T13:06:44.542-08:00Third Law of Politics and the Tea Party Community<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0F-ycvq2knk/URai4VrBspI/AAAAAAAACmc/bSiz2_3RA8E/s1600/tea-party-community-main.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0F-ycvq2knk/URai4VrBspI/AAAAAAAACmc/bSiz2_3RA8E/s320/tea-party-community-main.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Marxists, Keynesians, and liberal-progressives just don't get it. Liberty is mankind's birthright. There is no alternative. Every action they initiate using government threat of force to push their Utopian programs creates an equal and opposite reaction pulling for liberty. Honoring Isaac Newton, let's call this the Third Law of Politics. <br /><br />As government expands it's power, people's deep inner desire for liberty becomes even more powerfully felt. As government regulations increase, the craving for freedom among the people increases exponentially. <br /><br />This Third Law of Politics is not a man-made law. Therefore it is not taught in university political "science" classes. Such a curriculum failure is unfortunate. Great pain could be averted. <br /><br />Keeping in mind the Third Law of Politics, how do we know the Marxist, Keynesian, liberal-progressive momentum is about to come to a screeching halt? Look around. How many liberty-oriented organizations and efforts have sprung into being in the last few years? Just as an example, the Republican Liberty Caucus was founded in only&nbsp;1991. The&nbsp;Tea Party is&nbsp;an even newer&nbsp;movement.&nbsp; The Tea Party Caucus in Congress was only started in 2010,&nbsp;yet already&nbsp;boasts perhaps 70 congressional members fighting for the innate&nbsp;desires of their constituents.<br /><br />One very new arrival in this movement toward liberty is the <a href="https://www.teapartycommunity.com/">Tea Party Community</a>, a Facebook-like online social networking service for freedom lovers and defenders of the Bill of Rights.&nbsp; This new&nbsp;"facebook for liberty"&nbsp;was launched a few weeks ago, and with very little publicity has quickly grown to 100,000 members despite&nbsp;times of extensive&nbsp;technical difficulties caused by leftist hackers.<br /><br />If you join the <a href="https://www.teapartycommunity.com/">Tea Party Community</a>&nbsp;you will quickly see a number of postings which apparently rise out of ego-emotions such as anger, fear, frustration, pain or even an ego-desire to make a splash.&nbsp; You'll have to discipline yourself to ignore such postings, "forgive them, for they know not what they do," and give your attention instead to postings which are indeed valuable for information or insight, valuable new ways of seeing things.&nbsp; <br /><br />As it becomes apparent that liberty is on it's way to winning, the ego-postings will decline and the&nbsp;useful postings will become ever more useful.&nbsp; At present the vast majority of those in the <a href="https://www.teapartycommunity.com/">Tea Party Community</a>&nbsp;are interested in ridding&nbsp;themselves of the insanity forced on&nbsp;them by Marxists, Keynesians, and liberal-progressives.&nbsp; They are interested in "getting back to" the Constitution.&nbsp; But it will also become apparent that the flaws in the U.S. Constitution which have allowed Marxists, Keynesians, and liberal-progressives to gain and wield so much power <em><strong>can be</strong></em> corrected.<br /><br />During&nbsp;the 1760s and 1770s in the American colonies, those who were feeling their inner desire for liberty found friends and support&nbsp;among fellow colonists who&nbsp;they met&nbsp;in taverns, inns,&nbsp;or in front of churches&nbsp;after&nbsp;Sunday services.&nbsp;&nbsp;Their prayers and desires ultimately brought about&nbsp;the miraculous U.S. Constitution.&nbsp; In modern days,&nbsp;liberty lovers&nbsp;now&nbsp;have an additional way to find friends and&nbsp;share ideas ... our own social media site.&nbsp; How much greater a miracle will&nbsp;now be&nbsp;facilitated?<br />&nbsp;<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> <br /><br /><br />http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2013/02/third-law-of-politics-and-tea-party.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-6968859452059415217Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:17:00 +00002013-01-07T14:17:06.095-08:00Mankind's Deepest Fulfillment? Serving Liberty!<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SbQOcImS5PI/AAAAAAAABhE/pvZHMG-Fqgo/s1600-h/fireworksLiberty.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310885737083888882" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SbQOcImS5PI/AAAAAAAABhE/pvZHMG-Fqgo/s320/fireworksLiberty.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 295px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />It feels good to work for liberty, to listen&nbsp;to my spirit's guidance&nbsp;and do what I'm guided to do for liberty.&nbsp; But it feels even&nbsp;better to know that liberty will always win.&nbsp; Even if I were guided to wait and do nothing, liberty would win. There is a power at work for liberty which is far greater than I imagine. <br /><br />Call it the power of an idea whose time has come. Call it the deepest desire of every human heart and soul. Call it angels at work. It doesn't matter what one calls it. Liberty always rises again stronger than ever. <br /><br />Trying to contain liberty is like trying to contain love. Close it down temporarily in one area and it erupts in another area. Close it off as much as possible in all areas and it still finds a way to burst forth because not experiencing it is too painful. Human nature is love. Human nature is liberty. Liberty cannot fail to win.<br /><br />Why then do I join the Libertarian Party or the Liberty Caucus of some other political party? Why do I work toward extracting myself from bureaucratic control of my life and establishing personal sovereignty? Why do I put all my heart and soul into selling and promoting the works of Ayn Rand? <br /><br />I do these things because even though liberty is destined to prevail whether my efforts are involved or not, <strong><em>I'm feeling my best when I'm serving liberty.</em></strong> Serving liberty feels really, really good and honest and spiritually fulfilling inside myself. No matter what exact way I am guided to serve liberty, it is deeply soul-satisfying service. <br /><br />Those who are serving the opposite of liberty: government expansion, government involvement, and government interference have sold out their souls and are feeling deeply dissatisfied. <br /><br />These sell-outs, not understanding why they are feeling so empty, call for more of the same ... more government expansion, more government involvement, more government interference ... like asking the torturer to inflict more pain in the hopes of relieving pain. <br /><br />There is no such thing as a <em><strong>truly</strong></em> happy government worshipper or a <em><strong>truly</strong></em> happy government-advocating socialist. They will all insist they are happy, but they have no idea what true happiness is.<br /><br />But <strong><em>my</em></strong> soul is intact and my happiness shining bright <strong><em>because</em></strong> I work for liberty and serve liberty. <br /><br />Each day, upon awakening and upon retiring, and perhaps many moments in between, I take time to reaffirm:<br /><br /><strong><em>"Liberty I love you with all my heart and soul! I live only to serve you! Serving you I am serving myself and everyone! Serving you I am at my very best!"</em></strong> <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which even more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <strong><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </strong>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <strong><em>every</em></strong> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><em><strong>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a> <br /><br /><br />http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2013/01/mankinds-deepest-fulfillment-serving.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-4990189299309012593Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:43:00 +00002012-12-09T09:43:54.065-08:00The Deadly Misconception that Jesus Favored Taxation<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SOKBx97xFbI/AAAAAAAAA_U/rjoJ1_UPWwM/s1600-h/16579_med.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251902810906236338" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SOKBx97xFbI/AAAAAAAAA_U/rjoJ1_UPWwM/s320/16579_med.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a> <br />Whether their favorite Caesar wears Democratic Party clothing or Republican Party clothing, Americans continue to buy into the illusion that Jesus Christ supports the mechanism by which Caesar maintains his riches and his power over our lives. Even otherwise good well-meaning Americans are sold on the misconception that Jesus Christ supports taxation.&nbsp; <br /><br />Fascists, communists, and progressives (supporters of three branches of socialism), even after all the misery they have created the world over in the last 100 to 150 years, still aim a loud speaker toward us blaring their propaganda mantra: “Jesus was a socialist,” by which they try to convince us that Jesus advocated using government force or threat of force to redistribute wealth. <br /><br />But their propaganda noise would not sell the public if it were not for modern conservatives insisting that Jesus supported taxation. If someone tries campaigning against taxation, which is the primary tool of government redistribution of wealth, it is most often conservatives who can be heard helping the socialists by droning, “Well, Jesus advocated paying taxes.” <br /><br />It's definitely time for an in-depth look at the words of Jesus himself.<br /><br /><i><b>Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are. Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" <br /><br />But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?" <br /><br />"Caesar's," they replied. <br /><br />Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."</b></i> (Matthew 22:16-21)<br /><br />The intent of the Pharisees was to catch Jesus making an anti-taxation utterance. They knew many of his followers were anti-government zealots who hated being forced to pay taxes. Surely they could lure him into saying taxes collected by force (armed robbery), or threat of future harm (extortion), are immoral. Then they would have a case against him to take to the Roman governor before it was really his time to go to the Roman governor.<br /><br />Jesus saw through the attempted trap. He knew if he said, “It is wrong to pay taxes,” he would be arrested for sedition before his appointed time. If he said, “It is right to pay taxes,” the pharisees could shout that this is a teacher who supports an immoral system. Either answer would sabotage his work.<br /><br />By not saying it is right to pay taxes but not saying it is wrong either, Jesus avoided the trap and at the same time taught his disciples what is really important. On the one hand, Jesus was basically saying: “Your devotion to God and to God’s work is more important than petty ego-vested support or petty ego-resistance regarding an immoral earthly system.” At the same time, Jesus was implying that God is in charge and the immoral robbery and extortion of taxation will in time create its own karma. The secondary meaning of his words in essence was: “Keep your attention on God. Caesar will get what is coming to him.” <br /><br />Jesus was <b><i>not</i></b> an advocate of political force (state socialism) and therefore <b><i>not</i></b> an advocate of taxation. If he were an advocate of taxation, he would not have dictated, as he did in the original unedited version of <a href="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1171/jesuslives.html" target="_blank"><b><i>A Course in Miracles</i></b></a> miracle principle #23:&nbsp; <b><i>Miracles make time and tide wait for all men. They can heal the sick and raise the dead because man himself made both death and taxes, and can abolish both.</i></b> <br /><br />Despite the immorality of taxation, we nonetheless surrender and pay taxes ... why? Because Jesus teaches we would be stepping <b><i>out</i></b> of the kingdom of heaven if we were to step <b><i>into</i></b> resistance. If we strained against taxation we would be taxing ourselves, wouldn’t we? (In ACIM, Jesus adds a side note: <b><i>Tax also means “strain.”</i></b>)<br /><br />To those who advocate socialism or the forced redistribution of wealth through taxation, Jesus says: <b><i>“Escape today the chains you place upon your mind when you perceive salvation here.”</i></b> (ACIM Lesson 128) Not one human being will ever be truly saved or truly benefited by schemes concocted by extremely illusory human perception and misnamed "progressive" man-made governments.<br /><br />(<b>Also highly recommended:</b> a much more thorough look at this Biblical passage and how it is being incorrectly used: <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/barr-j1.1.1.html">Render Unto Caesar: A Most Misunderstood New Testament Passage</a>)<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a><br /><br /><div><b><span style="color: #006600; font-size: 85%;">Each month our Holy Spirit gives a message of prophetic revelation which helps individuals open spiritually and understand Jesus' teaching.</span></b></div><br /><br /><br /><div></div><div><b><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #006600;">If you would like to receive an email each month containing a link to the latest message from our Holy Spirit, please email us with "ADD" in the subject line:</span> <a href="mailto:holyinstant@aol.com">holyinstant@aol.com</a></span></b></div><div></div><br /><br />"...nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you." (Luke 17:21)<br /><br /><br />Click below for more information on A Course in Miracles Light Sessions:<br /><a href="http://holyinstantchristian.blogspot.com/">Holy Instant Christian Fellowship in Salt Lake City</a><br /><b></b> <br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <b><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </b>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <b><i>every</i></b> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><i><b>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a><br /><br />http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-deadly-misconception-that-jesus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-2178594513655664768Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:34:00 +00002012-11-10T16:34:06.176-08:00Ayn Rand's Spirit vs. Barack Obama's Ego<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SbQIbfBpuMI/AAAAAAAABg8/WEi5mRPo6mA/s1600-h/ayn_rand.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310879128854575298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SbQIbfBpuMI/AAAAAAAABg8/WEi5mRPo6mA/s320/ayn_rand.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 204px;" /></a>Government worshippers are in control of most universities, virtually every public school system, and almost every major media market. Barack Obama's re-election shows that the general public has been thoroughly brainwashed to believe that if there is a problem, or the illusion of a problem, government solutions are the answer ... a new government program, a new government bureaucracy, more power to government. <br /><br />Because almost all avenues of education and information have been under the control of government worshippers, the vast majority of people are stuck in thinking habits which will never for long periods of time serve liberty. <br /><br />Because people's underlying thinking habits will rise to the surface again and again, any libertarian political victory can only be short-lived ... unless people's underlying way of thinking is changed. <br /><br />As much as I might hate to admit it, thorough re-education of the public <strong><em>cannot not </em></strong>be a number one priority for libertarians. <br /><br />The question is: what to teach? <br /><br />The answer is given by Ayn Rand. It's not about politics or economics. It's about mankind's life-enhancing spirit vs. mankind's death-serving ego. It's about Ellsworth Toohey's ego trying to utterly destroy Howard Roark's creative spirit. It's about James Taggart's ego trying to belittle as "old-fashioned" his sister's innocent and wondering spirit. It's about Lillian Reardon's ego trying to twist the laws of nature 180 degrees and somehow render immoral Hank Reardon's benevolent and heroic spirit. <br /><br />It's about life vs. death. Religious people would have allegorically identified the issue as God vs. Satan or the Christ vs. the Devil. But there is no reason to be allegorical. Mankind does have a heroic spirit and egos are determined to diminish this spirit and destroy it altogether if possible ... whether these egos be government henchmen, union henchmen, corporate henchmen, or just plain thugs. <br /><br />Can I hope to educate the vast majority of people to the truth of the real battle going on using intellectual articles or philosophical treatises? Only in my dreams! <br /><br />Can I expose ego destroying spirit as Ayn Rand did with novels, plays, and screenplays made into movies? Now I'm being realistic! <br /><br />Do I need to myself become a novelist or playwright? Not unless this is my truest heart's desire and my guidance from within. Ayn Rand has already done sufficient work for starters. I can make a huge difference for liberty in the world, lighten and enlighten the world, merely by selling and promoting the work Ayn Rand has already done. <br /><br />It's not that Ayn Rand's philosophy is 100% correct. When she philosophizes she sometimes gets herself trapped in the same cobwebs spun by all intellectuals. My purpose is not to create a million and one robotic Objectivists who lock step to the same tune and end up being stumbling blocks to the cause of true freedom. <br /><br />It is not Ayn Rand's philosophizing that makes her work valuable to my cause but her sense of life and spiritual seeing. My purpose is to sell her sense of life and her vivid understanding that the forces opposing the spirit of mankind are the forces of death itself. <br /><br />For lovers&nbsp;of life and liberty, &nbsp;there may be no faster way to educate the public than to&nbsp;brainstorm and come up with 101 fresh ideas for selling Ayn Rand's work, especially her greatest novels, <strong><em>The Fountainhead</em></strong> and <strong><em>Atlas Shrugged</em></strong>. <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <b><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </b>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <b><i>every</i></b> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><i><b>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a>http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2012/11/ayn-rands-spirit-vs-barack-obamas-ego.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-3262714778972384856Sun, 07 Oct 2012 15:29:00 +00002012-10-07T08:29:24.373-07:00Why Do They Really Like Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, Mitt Romney?<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="239" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NZ1dZhh0_RQ" width="425"></iframe><br /><br />As you watch the above video carefully, engage your imagination powerfully. In your mind make the following substitutions:<br /><br />When you see baseball players in the background, imagine instead they are America's Founding Fathers.<br /><br />When Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) says, <em>"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball,"</em> change it in your mind to, <em><strong>"The one constant through all the years has been political liberty."</strong></em><br /><br />When Mann says, <em>"America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."</em> in your mind hear instead, <em><strong>"America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But liberty has marked the time. This idea, this dream: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."</strong></em><br /><br />Then maybe watch the video yet another time, paying attention to Annie's brother, Mark, imagining in your mind that Mark (Timothy Busfield) is your ego:<br /><br />When Mark says, <em>"Ray, just sign the papers,"</em> imagine it's your ego saying, <strong><em>"Just give in. Don't think you can create change."</em></strong><br /><br />And a little later, <em>"Ray, when the bank opens in the morning ... they'll foreclose,"</em> that's your ego saying, <strong><em>"It's hopeless, the political&nbsp;elite&nbsp;are&nbsp;too entrenched, too powerful."</em></strong><br /><br />And later still, <em>"Ray, you will lose everything. You will be evicted,"</em> is your ego's final threat, <em><strong>"All will be lost! You will be done for!"</strong></em><br /><br />But don't listen to your ego.<br /><br /><em><strong>"People will come, Ray. People will come."</strong></em> is the voice of&nbsp;your holy&nbsp;spirit of liberty, which resides much deeper inside than your ego.<br /><br /><em><strong>"If you build it, they will come!"</strong></em>&nbsp;is your&nbsp;holy spirit calling you to build something wondrous which people will be attracted to without even knowing why.<br /><br />The American Founding Fathers built something marvelous. Now in the 21st Century&nbsp;it's time to build something that reminds people of the Founding Father's legacy yet forgives their mistakes and expands upon their dream. <br /><br />Will&nbsp;you build a&nbsp;liberty enclave&nbsp;similar to&nbsp;Galt's Gulch,&nbsp;yet an enclave that doesn't hide but shines in all it's glory?&nbsp; Will&nbsp;you build&nbsp;a free state in&nbsp;which you have convinced&nbsp;men and women to&nbsp;secede from the corrupt&nbsp;Union?&nbsp; Will&nbsp;you build&nbsp;a Restored U.S. Constitution like this one:&nbsp; <a href="http://restoredconstitution.blogspot.com/">U.S. Constitution Restored</a>&nbsp;? <br /><br />Don't listen to your&nbsp;ego which&nbsp;will guide you to drop out, hide out, perish the dream that "liberty for all" as unattainable. Don't&nbsp;sign your life away, as if nobody else&nbsp;can see what you see possible. Listen to your holy spirit heard inside, which will guide you to build something which will open people's eyes and prove irresistible to them.<br /><br />Quiet your intellect and listen inside. A still, small voice is speaking to you. It is your holy spirit of liberty gently urging you to build something. <strong><em>People will come.</em></strong> <br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <b><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </b>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <b><i>every</i></b> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><i><b>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a>http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2012/10/why-do-they-really-like-ron-paul-gary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-1429268630399582868Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:03:00 +00002012-09-08T14:03:54.068-07:00Liberty Lovers Ten Political Commandments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vvmTMbDVnZE/UEut8HgjDeI/AAAAAAAACbU/-BqX08g7CVc/s1600/10commandments.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vvmTMbDVnZE/UEut8HgjDeI/AAAAAAAACbU/-BqX08g7CVc/s320/10commandments.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />In 1966, Ronald Reagan popularized what became at that time the 11th Commandment for Republicans: "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." This strategy of "staying positive" eventually led to many Republican victories and Reagan's 8 year stay in the White House. In light of the fact that conservative and libertarian freedom lovers have consistently sabotaged themselves and made it possible for government worshippers to win elections, maybe a <strong>Liberty Lovers 10 Political Commandments</strong> is needed: <br /><br />(1) Thou shalt not speak negatively of any other candidates or parties. Negative complaining, whining, attacking ... turns off voters. Such negativity is unnecessary, makes one look&nbsp;personally ugly, and is politically self-defeating. Grandma's advice: "If you can't say anything positive, don't say anything at all." <br /><br />(2) Thou shalt not speak or write about issues which are anathema to the vast majority of voters. Grampa's way of putting it: "If you spit in people's faces, you lose their support." Navy SEAL's way of putting it: "If your position is highly unpopular ... shut up about it." <br /><br />(3) Thou shalt definitely speak or write&nbsp;loudly and often&nbsp;about issues which resonate with the vast majority of voters, but which other parties are not adequately addressing. People are attracted&nbsp;by positive solutions to what they feel inside are real problems for themselves, their families and their neighbors. The Republican Party initially&nbsp;burst into prominence&nbsp;with&nbsp;one single idea which people knew&nbsp;inside themselves to be true: slavery is wrong. <br /><br />(4) Thou shalt definitely extend love and respect to supporters of other parties. Those who extend love and respect always attract others because love and respect are attractive. But in politics attracting supporters of other parties is particularly important.&nbsp; To be successful ... you need the votes of those who have previously supported other parties.&nbsp; You cannot win by hoping to amass a majority among those who DO NOT usually vote.<br /><br />(5) Thou shalt definitely talk in street language which&nbsp;anyone can understand.&nbsp; Using specialized political terms that are currently popular&nbsp;conversational fare in the halls of universities and legislatures&nbsp;causes regular people (voters) to want to escape the discussion&nbsp;as soon as possible.<br /><br />(6) Thou shalt definitely come up with&nbsp;examples that are&nbsp;personal and elicit&nbsp;emotion when using examples to illustrate your points.&nbsp; "How would you feel if your neighbor came to your door with a gun and demanded some of your earnings to pay for his favorite program?"<br /><br />(7) Thou shalt definitely listen without resistance.&nbsp; Others may want to voice their currently held points of view.&nbsp; By hearing them out, you are respecting them, and therefore respecting yourself.&nbsp; Most people will not&nbsp;"let in"&nbsp;your views if you are not willing to listen to their views.<br /><br />(8) Thou shalt definitely recognize that most communication is non-verbal.&nbsp;&nbsp;Any truth in your mind will join with the (perhaps hidden) truth in the mind of another if you are willing to be in rapport with the other (willing to be "joined with" the other in spirit).&nbsp; Seeds planted on subconscious levels&nbsp;by joining with others will sprout in due time.<br /><br />(9) Thou shalt not place one's ego-satisfaction above defeating the worse evil.&nbsp; The ego's purpose is to defeat you.&nbsp; If you insist on satisfying your ego by not voting for the lesser of evils, then the greater of evils will always win ... and your highest interests will always suffer.<br /><br />(10) Thou shalt not try to "go it alone,"&nbsp;shutting out&nbsp;the infinite power and wisdom of God.&nbsp; Your spirit is free and should be considered holy.&nbsp; Your holy&nbsp;spirit wants for you outer conditions of freedom which reflect your true inner freedom.&nbsp;&nbsp;So freedom lovers have all the power of the universe on their side, if only they allow it.&nbsp;When uncertain, go with your holy spirit, not your intellect.&nbsp;And always give thanks that freedom will win.<br /><br /><br />&nbsp; <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <b><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </b>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <b><i>every</i></b> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><i><b>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a>http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2012/09/liberty-lovers-ten-political.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-3949211292938751047Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:09:00 +00002012-08-14T08:09:23.121-07:00What Would Patrick Henry Have Changed?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FezVNDoR7E8/T_nF0hgphWI/AAAAAAAACY4/eLrh4mK3ORU/s1600/New-Constitution-Draft-Preview.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="229" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FezVNDoR7E8/T_nF0hgphWI/AAAAAAAACY4/eLrh4mK3ORU/s320/New-Constitution-Draft-Preview.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Patrick Henry of Virginia&nbsp;spoke out more eloquently and forcefully for liberty than probably anyone else&nbsp;in the American Colonies.&nbsp; When the U.S. Constitution was created with the help of fellow Virginians&nbsp;George Washington and James Madison, Patrick Henry fought tooth and nail against it's ratification. He&nbsp;argued that&nbsp;the Constitution&nbsp;was a mechanism&nbsp;that would&nbsp;eventually lead&nbsp;to&nbsp;dictatorship.<br /><br />If Washington and Madison had consulted with Patrick Henry and said, "Tell us what kind of Constitution would preserve liberty, Henry might have provided the following broad outline:<br /><br />FUNCTION AND INTENT OF GOVERNANCE<br />(An important part of this Constitution would be an exposition of natural law and a clear statement specifying that the only function of governance is to respond to and adjudicate and/or arbitrate apparent violations of the natural laws specified in this Constitution. These laws are so fundamental to successful life in society that no person can opt out by claiming he or she has not agreed to these natural laws.)<br /><br />&nbsp;NATURAL LAWS WHICH ARE TO BE UPHELD<br />Governance will apply only to the natural laws specifically listed in this constitution. This governance structure is forbidden to make any new laws not herein specified. (The list would include, for example, laws prohibiting murder, theft, fraud, assault ... basic laws aimed at protection from harm to any individual's life, body, or property ... a minimum requirement for peaceful society.)<br /><br />&nbsp;FUNDING OF GOVERNANCE<br />All funding is voluntary. Those who donate money do so with the understanding that, as with church donations, many people may benefit from the governance which their donations help to fund, but nobody is forced to pay. It is specifically stated in this constitution that everyone does not have to pay their fair share. Each branch of governance must operate with separate voluntary funding and separate income and expense accounting disclosed to the public on a monthly basis. All funding must be via general voluntary donations to the specific branch of governance or by voluntary payment of suggested fees for services rendered. Taxation is expressly forbidden. No branch of governance may in any way force a person to pay for any program or service. In this system of governance there are no elections.&nbsp; People vote by supporting or not supporting the branches of governance with their voluntary donations.&nbsp; The branches of governance each have an incentive to remain efficient and uncorrupted so as not to lose their support in voluntary donations.<br /><br />STRUCTURE OF GOVERNANCE<br />Executive Branch<br />(This branch of governance maintains an infrastructure for responding to apparent violations of the natural laws specified herein, and constitutes the "teeth" in these laws. Basically this branch operates police and security functions.&nbsp; Recruits are hired based on outstanding achievement in police academies.&nbsp; Leaders are chosen from those with outstanding service records.)<br /><br />Judicial Branch<br />(This branch of governance provides an infrastructure for arbitration of disputes and adjudication of violations of the natural laws listed in this constitution. Arbiters are hired based on outstanding achievement in arbitration school.&nbsp; Judges are picked from those arbiters who have a substantial record of highly praised arbitration outcomes.)<br /><br />Monitoring Branch<br />(This branch of governance monitors and audits the other two branches as a "watchdog" against corruption and abuse of power. Monitors and auditors are hired based on outstanding achievement in monitoring and auditing school.)<br /><br />SUMMARY<br />Because this form of governance eliminates the three biggest problems with old forms of governance, legislatures, elections, and taxation; and because this form of governance offers safeguards against corruption and the abuse of power, with exceptionally good marketing this form of governance can be made to appeal to the general public and can be successfully sold.<br /><br /><br />&nbsp; <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <b><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </b>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <b><i>every</i></b> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><i><b>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a>http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2012/08/what-would-patrick-henry-have-changed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-615483927012601890Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:45:00 +00002012-07-08T13:45:49.708-07:00A Much Better Constitution For Your State<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FezVNDoR7E8/T_nF0hgphWI/AAAAAAAACY4/eLrh4mK3ORU/s1600/New-Constitution-Draft-Preview.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="229" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FezVNDoR7E8/T_nF0hgphWI/AAAAAAAACY4/eLrh4mK3ORU/s320/New-Constitution-Draft-Preview.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Let's suppose a few brave individuals joined their efforts and created a new constitution to market to people for adoption in their state. And let's suppose this constitution changed the complexion of governance in their state so that there would be no more taxation, no more man-made laws which offer the illusion of serving the public good but actually violate the rights of a portion of the public, and no more mechanisms for one group to gain power and abuse power by forcing their Utopian ideas on others. Can we make guesses as to what might be in such a constitution?<br /><br />FUNCTION AND INTENT OF GOVERNANCE<br />(An important part of this Constitution would be an exposition of natural law and a clear statement specifying that the only function of governance is to respond to and adjudicate and/or arbitrate apparent violations of the natural laws specified in this Constitution. These laws are so fundamental to successful life in society that no person can opt out by claiming he or she has not agreed to these natural laws.)<br /><br />&nbsp;NATURAL LAWS WHICH ARE TO BE UPHELD<br />Governance will apply only to the natural laws specifically listed in this constitution. This governance structure is forbidden to make any new laws not herein specified. (The list would include, for example, laws prohibiting murder, theft, fraud, assault ... basic laws aimed at protection from harm to any individual's life, body, or property ... a minimum requirement for peaceful society.)<br /><br />&nbsp;FUNDING OF GOVERNANCE<br />All funding is voluntary. Those who donate money do so with the understanding that, as with church donations, many people may benefit from the governance which their donations help to fund, but nobody is forced to pay. It is specifically stated in this constitution that everyone does not have to pay their fair share. Each branch of governance must operate with separate voluntary funding and separate income and expense accounting disclosed to the public on a monthly basis. All funding must be via general voluntary donations to the specific branch of governance or by voluntary payment of suggested fees for services rendered. Taxation is expressly forbidden. No branch of governance may in any way force a person to pay for any program or service. In this system of governance there are no elections.&nbsp; People vote by supporting or not supporting the branches of governance with their voluntary donations.&nbsp; The branches of governance each have an incentive to remain efficient and uncorrupted so as not to lose their support in voluntary donations.<br /><br />STRUCTURE OF GOVERNANCE<br />Executive Branch<br />(This branch of governance maintains an infrastructure for responding to apparent violations of the natural laws specified herein, and constitutes the "teeth" in these laws. Basically this branch operates police and security functions.&nbsp; Recruits are hired based on outstanding achievement in police academies.&nbsp; Leaders are chosen from those with outstanding service records.)<br /><br />Judicial Branch<br />(This branch of governance provides an infrastructure for arbitration of disputes and adjudication of violations of the natural laws listed in this constitution. Arbiters are hired based on outstanding achievement in arbitration school.&nbsp; Judges are picked from those arbiters who have a substantial record of highly praised arbitration outcomes.)<br /><br />Monitoring Branch<br />(This branch of governance monitors and audits the other two branches as a "watchdog" against corruption and abuse of power. Monitors and auditors are hired based on outstanding achievement in monitoring and auditing school.)<br /><br />SUMMARY<br />Because this form of governance eliminates the three biggest problems with old forms of governance, legislatures, elections, and taxation; and because this form of governance offers safeguards against corruption and the abuse of power, with exceptionally good marketing this form of governance can be made to appeal to the general public and can be successfully sold.<br /><br /><br />&nbsp; <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <b><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </b>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <b><i>every</i></b> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><i><b>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a>http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2012/07/much-better-constitution-for-your-state.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-3341094686204300135Sat, 05 May 2012 16:48:00 +00002012-05-05T17:48:57.157-07:00"For Greater Glory" A Must-See Movie<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NKeOHZ9NWao" width="425"></iframe><br /><br />Once every 20 or&nbsp;25 years&nbsp;or so someone in Hollywood gets it right.&nbsp;The film <i><b>For Greater Glory</b></i> gets it right.&nbsp; It really is a film everyone needs to see.<br /><br />The goal of liberal-progressives&nbsp;is to use government power to <i><b>force</b></i> their values on people.&nbsp;The Obama administration illustrates this insidious goal more clearly than any previous American administration.&nbsp;&nbsp;Endless laws and regulations and guidelines of political correctness&nbsp;declare you&nbsp;<b><i>will</i></b> live by liberal-progressive Utopian ideas ... or&nbsp;face the consequences.&nbsp;&nbsp;The movie <i><b>For Greater Glory</b></i> (in theaters June 1)&nbsp;is a timely answer to the Obama philosophy since it is&nbsp;a wonderful&nbsp;artistic depiction of&nbsp;the degree to which men and women&nbsp;wielding government power in the name of their Utopia&nbsp;will become murderous&nbsp;... and of&nbsp;the&nbsp;glorious response of the spirit of freedom in people.<br /><br />This is a true story of men and women of spirit saying "Enough is enough!" ... with their guns, the Cistero War in Mexico in 1926-1929.&nbsp;&nbsp;The movie trailer says it all:&nbsp;"When they outlawed freedom, free men became outlaws!"&nbsp; See this movie and tell others about it.<br />&nbsp; <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <b><a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </b>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <b><i>every</i></b> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><i><b>You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a>http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2012/05/must-see-movie-for-greater-glory.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557966203320397205.post-3958845790266416826Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:07:00 +00002012-04-08T11:07:44.279-07:00Turning Political War Into A Fun Game<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R-kkCfFBppI/AAAAAAAAAj8/8XWAm6rUCc0/s1600-h/heart1.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181712471387383442" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R-kkCfFBppI/AAAAAAAAAj8/8XWAm6rUCc0/s320/heart1.gif" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />This year we've seen President Obama constantly trying to place blame on Republicans, we've seen Republicans constantly attacking one another, we've seen followers of Ron Paul fighting verbal battles with Democrats, Republicans, and Independents ... and we've seen many people turning away from interest in politics because politics is seeming too much like war.<br /><br />But does politics really <b><i>have to be</i></b> war? It is certainly possible to imagine a person being politically aware, even politically involved, and still staying totally at peace inside. But to maintain that peace, what thought would a person watching politics need to hold constantly in mind? How about:<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 120%;"></span><br /><center><span style="font-size: 120%;"><i><b>"In place of frustration or anger, I quickly substitute love."</b></i></span></center><br /><br />An enlightened person knows there is never any reason to worry and never any reason to fear. These themes have been introduced in the lessons of this course and were actually major lessons taught by Ayn Rand in her novel Atlas Shrugged.<br /><br />But if there is never any reason to worry or fear, then there is never any reason for frustration or anger ... because just as night falls out of dusk, frustration and anger can only be the fallout of worry or fear.<br /><br />Lessons of this course help to eliminate or reduce worry and fear, thus reducing the possibility of creating feelings of frustration or anger, but how does one quickly get rid of anger or frustration if one happens to take the fall?<br /><br />The answer of course is to rise back into one's spiritual nature, which does not know feelings of frustration or anger. But how easy is it to return to peace when one is in the middle of anger? How easy is it to turn to joy when feeling frustrated?<br /><br />The easiest way to return to one's spiritual nature when one is feeling anger or frustration is to love. Nothing casts out anger and frustration faster than love.<br /><br />No matter how frustrated or angry one becomes, there is <b><i>some place </i></b>or <b><i>something</i></b> or <b><i>somebody</i></b> one can love. When one turns attention to that which one loves, it takes very little time for the love to burn up and dissipate anger and frustration.<br /><br />Try this:<br /><br />For an entire month, vow to practice utmost diligence in substituting love whenever you notice yourself becoming frustrated or angry. To make this substitution, merely think of whatever or whoever you <b><i>really</i></b> love and say over and over again:<br /><br /><b><i>"I love you </i></b>(specific name of person, place, or thing). <b><i>I really, really love you."</i></b><br /><br />Don't merely say this once or twice with minimum feeling. On the contrary, say it many, many times in an attempt to bring forth the deepest feeling of love. When love is felt strongly enough, frustration and anger disappear.<br /><br />Each day as you awaken, ask yourself what situations might plausibly occur during the day which could engender frustration or anger in you. While visualizing each situation and imagining yourself substituting love in the way mentioned above, say aloud to yourself:<br /><br /><b><i>"I quickly substitute love for frustration or anger in this situation. I love you </i></b>(specific name of person, place, or thing). <b><i>I really, really love you."</i></b><br /><br />Using these simple mental exercises you are now able to watch politics, even be involved in politics, without being at war. Now you are a winner. But not the winner of a war. The winner of a fun game. You can say to your friends, "I don't fight political wars. I have fun playing freedomball!"<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143248065127873042" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/R2B83XmpehI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/Is1GUzSjMDc/s400/images.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br /><br />The device which more deeply prepares freedom lovers for success, <b> <a href="http://www.acimi.com/catalog/acim.htm" target="_blank">A Course in Miracles</a> </b>, talks about our ultimate need to free ourselves from <b><i>every</i></b> kind of slavery:<br /><br /><i><b> You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of your self, the little thought that seems split off and separate, that the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. But this wild and delusional thought needs help, because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. </b></i><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s1600-h/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217317122182076482" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5eMPWCpCZIQ/SGeiR7Q52EI/AAAAAAAAA14/4cXyjVQ7FAw/s320/transformation_to_light_awakening.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a><br /><br />Also available free of charge online:<br /><a href="http://miraclesdaily.blogspot.com/">Course in Relationship Miracles</a>http://libertydiscourses.blogspot.com/2012/04/turning-political-war-into-fun-game.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Christian Prophet)0